HELP!!! Wii sensor bar failure
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 - 12:26am
Our Wii was working fine two days ago and now there is no cursor on the screen. I went to Nintendo's support page, and it described a step by step process on how to check if the sensor bar had failed. Sure enough, our bar is completely dead. Considering the extremely low cost of a replacement, does anyone know of a quick and dirty fix or should I just accept that a ten dollar part is probably going to be susceptible to failure and swap it out?
Just grab yourself two candles.
I wonder if that actually works or if he just put another sensor bar above the screen just out of frame. If it's true that is freaking hilarious.
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I can't find the thread right now, but there was another thread here where it was stated that Nintendo support told someone that two candles would do the job until their replacement arrivied, just as displayed in the video.
private String paula = "Brillant";
The sensor bar just sends out infra-red light on the left and the right side which the Wiimote receives and out of which the coordinates of the cursor are calculated. It doesn't matter whether it is sent out via the light emitting diodes on the sensor bar or a candle. You can even improve the range of the Wiimote by replacing the sensor bar with some high power diodes on the left and the right top of your TV.
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Did you check to make sure the bar is far enough forward? I've had that problem if the bar gets pushed back, so make sure that it's flush with the edge of the TV screen.
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It worked great for me when my sensor bar went. I played with a couple candles until Nintendo sent me a replacement bar.
I also tried the candles, and it does work. It was how I got to test the pointer functionality of the Wii-mote on my pc. The Wii is at my girlfriends home.
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Holy crap, that's the weirdest thing I've ever seen... worked like a charm. What kind of McGuyver crap is this? Do two midgets with trombones and a early LP copy of the first Talking Heads album fix the RROD issues? Anyone tried it?
The sensor bar isn't really a sensor. It's a pair of infrared LEDs. The IR sensor is in the Wiimote itself. Candles give off a lot of infrared energy.
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/
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Hm? Didn't I already explain this? Or is my English that bad and nobody understands what I'm trying to say?
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Don't worry about. There are often mis-read, skipped and thus duplicated posts on forums (as well as in real life) in general. It's nothing personal.... if you feel like getting back at them just call those people 'filty skimmers' and put a link into your post for your original post
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More like my reading skills are so bad I don't understand anything anyone writes. I read what you wrote, but until reading it again just now, I missed what you were trying to say. There's nothing wrong with your English.
Also, it was an excuse to repost the link to those videos of the the electronic whiteboard and head-tracking unit made with the Wii.
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My wife picked up a 'wireless sensor bar' after the rabbits chewed through the wire on the original. I recommend against it. It works just fine when on, however, there are no lights or other obvious signs to indicate that the bar is currently powered on. The only way to tell short of attempting to use it, is that the on/off button sticks out just slightly more when its turned off and the difference is slight enough you'll probably still need to turn it off and on to tell. The issue, of course, is that every time I use the Wii, I forget to turn the damn thing off, and with brand new rechargeable (AAA) batteries, the batteries are dead after 8 hours or so.
private String paula = "Brillant";